ECOC Exhibition 2024 Show Guide

Iñigo Artundo Received the M.Sc. in Telecom Engineering at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) in 2005, and received his Ph.D. on Applied Physics and Photonics at the Vrije

François Couny François Couny is responsible for driving to market innovative optical solutions that help customers

Raju Kankipati Raju Kankipati is currently at POET Technologies heading sales, marketing and product management. He has over 20 years of experience in Optical transceivers, Optical components, Cloud data

overcome challenges while testing better and smarter. In his role as EXFO’s Product Line Manager since 2015, he has been focusing development efforts on state-of-the-art equipment for the optical testing of integrated photonic components. François was previously an R&D engineer at Yenista Optics (now part of EXFO) where he was involved in developing tunable laser sources and spectral solutions, including an optical spectrum analyzer and an optical component tester adapted to the characterization of photonic integrated circuits. François holds a PhD in photonics from the University of Bath (UK).

Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) in 2009. He holds specializations in Business Financing, Commercial Management and Research, and Strategic Marketing. He has been involved in several national and European research projects and networks of excellence focused on reconfigurable optical interconnects, development of micro-optic devices and photonic integrated circuits, and on flexible access and in-building fiber network architectures. Since 2011 he has been involved in VLC Photonics, and he is currently the CEO. He has worked as a reviewer for several scientific journals and national funding agencies, including being a member of the high-level steering committee set up by the European Commission for the establishment of the Quantum Technologies Flagship program.

center and Optical networks. His experience includes MACOM where he was the Senior Director of Product Management for optical components, such as laser, photodetectors, silicon photonics, and photonic solutions. Prior to that, Raju worked at Arista Networks as a Senior Product Manager and Engineering Manager where he collaborated closely with data center customers to bring unique switching products as well as Optical transceivers to market. Raju worked as a Product Manager at Cisco prior to joining Arista. Raju started his career as an Optics Engineer at Opnext in Japan (now part of Lumentum) and later held various roles in sales and marketing at the company. Raju received his MBA degree from UC Berkeley (Haas School of Business) and completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from BITS, Pilani in India Prashanta Kharel Dr. Prashanta Kharel is Technology Strategist at Flexcompute, where he is leading partnerships with foundries and helping develop new simulation tools for the photonics industry. Dr. Kharel obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Yale University, specializing in nonlinear optics and quantum technologies. In his prior role as head of devices and founding team member of HyperLight, Dr. Kharel worked on commercializing Thin-film Lithium Niobate photonics platform from diverse markets ranging from optical communications to test and measurement. Dr. Kharel has authored over 22 journal articles and 13 patents, bringing a blend of academic insight and industry experience to photonic design automation.

Dr. Frank Effenberger Dr. Frank Effenberger, Fellow, Futurewei Technologies, has worked in the optical access field for over 30 years at Bellcore, Quantum Bridge Communications (Motorola), and Futurewei Technologies,

Matthew Burns Matthew Burns develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon-to-Silicon solutions. Over the course of 25 years, he has been a leader in design, applications engineering, technical sales

where he is now the Fellow for fixed access network technology. His team works on forward-looking fiber access technologies and has played a foundational role in the development of all the major PON systems in use today. Frank is the rapporteur for ITU-T Q2/15, is a Fellow of the OSA and the IEEE, and holds 140 US patents.

and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.

Michael Geiselmann Michael Geiselmann (President & CCO) studied physics and engineering at University Stuttgart and Ecole Centrale Paris. After his PhD at ICFO in Barcelona in 2014 he joined

Fabio Cavaliere Fabio Cavaliere is Expert

in Photonic Systems and Technologies at

Ericsson, and Rapporteur of ITU-T Question 6/15 (Characteristics of optical components, subsystems and

the laboratory of Prof. Kippenberg at EPFL in Lausanne, where he advanced frequency comb generation on integrated silicon nitride chips towards applications and was involved in several international research projects. In 2016, he co-founded LIGENTEC and brought the company to the international stage of photonic integration.

systems for optical transport networks). Fabio is author of about 130 filed patent applications and more than 100 publications on optical networks, including the books “Photonics applications for radio systems and Networks” (Artech House, Boston, USA) and “New Trends in Optical Networks” (Applied Sciences - ISSN 2076-3417). In 25 years of professional experience, his research activity encompassed radio access networks, fiber access, high speed optical transmission and integrated photonics. Fabio is guest editor of Applied Science’s Topical Collection on Optical Networks and IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. He is in the Board of Stakeholders of Photonics 21 (the European technology platform on photonic technologies) and in the in Strategic Advisory Board of the European Quantum Flagship.

Bert Klaps Bert Klaps holds a masters degree in Electrical– Mechanical Engineering, Electronics from the KU Leuven University of Leuven, Belgium. He has been working on optical transport

Ryo Inohara Ryo Inohara joined KDDI Corporation in 2001, where he has engaged in the research of all-optical signal processing technology and the commercial development of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)

systems for more than 30 years and has been actively contributing to standards development. Currently he is optical standardization expert at Huawei. In ITU-T he is the Associate Rapporteur for Q11 of ITU-T SG15 and the editor of the OTN equipment recommendation.

systems. Currently, he is a senior manager of optical access network laboratory at KDDI Research, Inc., and engaged in the research and development of optical access network technologies toward Beyond 5G/6G. He is also serving as the coordinator of IOWN for Mobile Network Task Force (IMN-TF) at the IOWN Global Forum.

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